Iran: million

Human Rights Watch says that the Iranian government should immediately release two women�s rights activists arrested on April 1.
April 1, five women's rights activists who were planning to gather signatures for the One Million Signatures Campaign got arrested in Laleh Park, Tehran.
Mahboubeh Hosseinzadeh, Nahid Keshavarz, Saideh Amin, Sarah Imanian and Imanian's husband, Homayoun Nami got arrested April 1
and April 3 transferred to a Court.
Court officials then asked the detainees to sign a pledge to end their activities on behalf of the campaign.
Hosseinzadeh and Keshavarz refused.
Officials told them that their activities amounted to acting against Islam and the state and that they would be charged accordingly and taken to Evin Prison.
That afternoon, they released Amin, Imanian, and Nami.
They transferred Keshavarz and Hosseinzadeh to Evin prison.
Lawyers and familymembers were not allowed to contact them, also nobody at the court could, due to absence of the judge, officials advised them to return on Saturday, April 7.


During the past year, the Iranian government has intensified its persecution of women's rights advocates, especially those involved in the One Million Signatures Campaign.
March 4 were 34 womenactivists arrested, two of them spent more than two weeks in solitary confinement.
While all the women were eventually freed on bail, prosecutions against them are proceeding.
On April 4, authorities summoned Parastoo Dokoohaki, Sara Loghayee, and Saghi Loghayee to appear in court on Sunday, April 8.



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Children are being hanged to death.
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